Van..Tanker..Flatbed ... ?

Depends, some carriers pay a few extra CPM for haz-mat loads, some don't, most pay a few extra CPM for tanker division because of all the [unpaid] work and excess time involved with tanker hauling. Look around carefully at all the discussions on tanker hauling here before you decide to jump into that. It has many cons but few pros IMO. You can almost expect your weekly mileage to be considerably lower pulling tanker vs van/flat/reefer ... more than the few extra CPM can compensate for.

The carriers who haul hazmat or food-grade tanker charge ungodly rates for their specialized service, but only a tiny fraction of this additional amount (if any) get's paid back to the driver who has to deal with a good portion of the headaches and issues it entails.

 

I pull tanks and I get paid for everything I do. Hourly loading/unloading after 2 hrs($20 flat for the first 2) hourly layover pay after 10 hours, sleeper berth pay, tankwash pay, and other miscellaneous things that I am forgetting. I'm sure there are some tanker companies that don't pay for those things, but most companies do afaik.

 

I'm assuming he as a new driver is looking at Schneider or Groendyke and I don't think either is going to make him a wealthy tank driver. Unless they've enhanced their tank pay in the last year or so, they seemed to be a losing proposition from what I gathered.

 

that's great; do u mind telling us who u drive for? is it otr, regional or local?

 

if i was you with a fresh cdl if you have tanker with hazmat try locally to get on with a petroleum company (gas hauler) they love drivers with no exp (they like to train them there way) training and getting all your fuel cards will take a while (3 or 4 months) but the pay is by the stop and is really good (i made between 800 and 1200 dollars a week) home every night and only every other weekend it takes alot of cncentration and no mistakes can be made but if your young :nd eager you can make tons of money i did it for 1 yr and made great money in charlotte nc........

 

Superior Carriers, otr. I should add that I messed up on our layover pay. First 15 hrs are unpaid then 8 hrs paid, 10 unpaid 8 paid.

 

I ran tankers for 5-years. During the Recession that ended June 2009 we gave back a lot of incidental pay that never came back. I don't miss the sloshing of the freight, or slinging hoses, or pump offs, or styrene, or resins, or poison, screw the token layover pay (i want to be home or running). Depending on the runs you get, it can be a ball buster, or rather easy. The bad news is the ball buster pays the same as the load where you do nothing. Good luck, and OH flatbed sucks!